

Workshop
United World Workshop acts to highlight and promote endeavors, initiatives, projects and programs which can impact on building up a more united world.


18.09.2014
Colombian Butterflies receive prestigious Nansen Refugee Award
19 coordinators of Butterflies, a women's rights network which also has 100 core volunteers. They put their lives on the line to assist forcibly displaced women and those who have been subject to sexual or physical violence. Geneva – The...
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16.09.2014
How three students created Nigeria’s online jobs giant
In the summer of 2009 three students, when their university lecturers in Nigeria went on strike, realized the single largest job placement website in sub-Saharan Africa, helping over 35,000 people find jobs within the last two years. Three students had time on...
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15.09.2014
Bangladesh, Caritas promotes the reforestation of Bandarban
Together with six other non-governmental organizations, the Catholic section of Chittagong has planted trees for 16 miles on a provincial road frequently used by tourists. This can help avoid landslides during the rainy season and the environment. The thanks of...
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12.09.2014
Pakistan: a second Biosphere Reserve
The Juniper Forest of Ziarat in Balochistan, which is believed to be the second largest of its kind in the world, has been declared as Biosphere Reserve. The International Coordinating Council of Man and Biosphere (ICCMAB) Programme of United Nations...
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11.09.2014
No barrier
Argentine restaurant employing disabled people leads by example For fifteen years a small, successful enterprise in Buenos Aires has been selling hotdogs, hamburgers and pizzas. It's a restaurant like many others, but with one significant difference. Most of the people...
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10.09.2014
Interculturalism at school gets boost
Observatory to meet society's ‘real demands’, minist Italy's education ministry on Tuesday launched a national observatory for the integration of foreign students and interculturalism in the country's schools. The observatory is mandated to "identify ways of bringing policies for school integration into...
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08.09.2014
Eastern economies continue growth run
Poland +3.2%, Czech Republic +2.6% (ANSA) - The Eurozone deals with zero growth, Italy sees again the recession and even Germany's economy is contracting, but the economies of Eastern Europe continue reach growth. Poland has recorded a GDP growth of...
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05.09.2014
Ukraine ceasefire very close
Russia and Ukraine "reach ceasefire" in eastern Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko announces Moscow's and Kiev's positions on how to end the crisis in eastern Ukraine are "very close," Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. A permanent ceasefire deal brokered...
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04.09.2014
Bridging the gap
Through soccer, youth in South Africa come closer to one another. Like many others from my generation, after graduation I was working part-time while struggling to find meaningful, career-focused work, when I stumbled across an internship opportunity with the Football...
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